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As sustainability advances, so too does the push to creating healthier interior environments for tenants’ workers, but many challenges exist on defining what this actually means and how best to measure it to create value.

The CoreLogic Home Price Index Forecast suggests U.S. home prices will rise less than 5 percent this year, but if some 2018 mortgage rate forecasts pan out the mortgage payments homebuyers face could increase closer to 15 percent.

Home building is back in Santa Maria. The west side of town is buzzing with construction, and new homes are not staying on the market long. While prices are climbing, they are still well below other Central Coast cities, making Santa Maria an increasingly popular place to call home.

Closed escrow sales of existing, single-family detached homes in California totaled a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 388,800 units in January, according to information collected by C.A.R. from more than 90 local REALTOR® associations and MLSs statewide. It marked the first time since March 2016 that the statewide sales figure dropped below 400,000.

During their development work on an international news feed, software engineers at Aloha Browser discovered two Unicode symbols in a non-English language that can crash any Apple device that uses Apple’s default San Francisco font.

It’s been five years, but the much contested whitewashing and demolition of Long Island City’s former graffiti mecca, 5Pointz, is far from forgotten. On Monday, a federal judge ruled that New York City real estate developer, Jerry Wolkoff, must pay $6.7 million in damages to the 21 artists whose work at the five-story warehouse site was painted over virtually overnight.

A five-county poll conducted for the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and this news organization also found that more than one-third of Bay Area apartment renters and one-quarter of residents in their 20s and 30s say they are struggling to afford their housing.

The Median Sales Price of $224,000 also set a January record — up 6.7% year-over-year. Out of 53 markets, 51 posted gains, marking January as the 22nd consecutive month of year-over-year price increases dating back to April 2016.

The 2018 edition of the World's Most Innovative Companies spans more than 350 enterprises across 36 categories, from the world's most valuable firm and its continuing transformation of consumer electronics to a small outfit selling natural gum to preserve rainforests.

The CNBC/SurveyMonkey Q1 Small Business Confidence Index saw an increase of five points, from 57 to 62, a record high and the largest quarter-to-quarter move the index has seen since CNBC and SurveyMonkey began measuring last year.

In 2017, venture investors deployed over $5 billion in real estate technology, more than 150 times the $33 million invested in 2010. Once a sector seemingly ignored by the venture industry, real estate tech has come front and center, notably producing two of the three most valuable startups in the United States, WeWork and Airbnb.

Some design studios are so prolific that they can make cult products out of esoteric ideas. The Japanese studio nendo holds that distinction. Founder Oki Sato founded his practice in 2002, and since then, he has been conjuring up award-winning designs, architectural projects, and limited editions from the outer limits.

For many, competing at the Olympics is the dream of a lifetime. But these accomplished athletes found success both inside and far beyond the Olympic stadium, as movie stars, politicians, famed generals, and Darth Vader's stunt double.

The GSEs’ large footprint in buying mortgages, bundling them, and guaranteeing the resulting mortgage-backed securities raises concerns about the amount of risk for which taxpayers are on the hook when the market experiences leaner times.

A report from Beauchamp Associates and Leslie J. Garfield & Co., U.S. Ultra Prime Real Estate, said in the past 12 months, foreign investment in U.S. properties jumped by 72 percent. Of these transactions, 44 percent were all-cash purchases, with nearly 40 percent of these transactions in Miami, New York and Los Angeles.

The percentage of home buyers who could afford to purchase a median-priced, existing single-family home in California in fourth-quarter 2017 edged up to 29 percent from 28 percent in the third quarter of 2017 but was down from 31 percent in the fourth quarter a year ago, according to C.A.R.’s Traditional Housing Affordability Index (HAI)

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